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Hearing on efforts to improve education on science, technology, engineering and math. The Mars Exploration summit began with opening remarks from nasa administrator charles bolden, he spoke about the importance of humans becoming a multiplanet species and nasas goal of putting humans on mars in the next two decades. This is 30 minutes. Thank you very much, and thanks to all of you for allowing me to be with you this morning and it kind of kick us off, i hope. I also want to thank explore mars as...

Budgets that we spent to become great in the world. Theres no reason i can see why we should not redress that grievance, although obviously its an uphill battle. No, i dont why not go for the big money . Well, were going for the biggest money we think we can logically go for right now. But i just think its unrealistic to assume that this congress and any future congress is going to jump to 4 of gdp. I just dont think 1 . We may get to 1 . Now 1 is 1 would be like a gold mine. Indeed. And im not ...

Period. The are russians have flown ons. Several yearlong missions. Its but if we look at the tools wih weve got today we can see if ht theres anything in the human system, to see if there is that something that degrades that hasnt reached study grade in terms of human degradation in keeping humans alive. How important is it to simulate a mars mission in lower earth orbit that way, and how close do you have to make it to a real mars mission to be a ma value . Do you build i n the to communicatio...

One way to look at it, apollo 13 with the event that it had. I believe that was around 84 hours. We had to keep the crew alive for 84 hours. So we had life support systems, if youre going to go to mars that have to work for months, possibly over a year, depending on how long it takes you to get there and how long you stay. We have to take the steps to get that in place. Its going to take some time to get a reliable system in place. We can land a metric ton on the surface of mars, thats all we kn...

Now, im not going to let my government colleagues off the hook, because we also used to see a lot of senior government officials on the Government Coordinating Council side of the house engaged frequently in that business. Ive seen a diminishment of senior level engagement over the last decade. We need to fix that problem in two ways. Ceos and coos need to get supportive of this, so do senior government officials. We need tough decisions and risk outcomes to be decided and thats not going to hap...

Transport like what eisenhower had, which was one of the things that apparently convinced him of the need for a system of defense highways. Im not aware that there was any use of interstate 70 for those purposes. It seems to have been, as far as the evidence i have been able to find. There was a lot of talk at those times about the highways being defense highways. The official name for them, for the interstate system when it was created in 1956, the National System of interstate and defense high...

Get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they ar...

Because of our location and because of our demographics. We have been working on this issue for a long time, trying to get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, th...

I would note that, in recent the raw number of crashes and deaths nationwide has decreased and that is a good thing. There is anyeve evidence based on the best the problemta that is increasing or decreasing as a share of all crashes. If we look or use conservative estimates that we have across of of the more solid studies the proportion of crashes that involved drowsy drivers and wely that to 2012 data, estimate over 5000 were killed in crashes that involved a drowsy driver. You mentioned multip...

So the group homes really become targeted very specifically by pimps. They know where the group homes are and they will go and recruit specifically there, and sometimes theyll get other girls to do that. The other place where girls are recruited are in juvenile Detention Centers where girls recruit each other. So given we know all of this information, we absolutely can prevent this from happening. But we do have to fundamentally change parts of the Child Welfare system in order to do it. Congres...